Chandelier holding attachment



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A.REED.

UHANDELIER HOLDING ATTACHMENT.

No. 271, I Patented Feb.6, 1883.

Wit n eyexs UNITED STATES PATENT .FFICE.

ARTHUR REED, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

CHANDELlER-HOLDING ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 271,739, dated February 6, 1883.

Application filed August 30, 1882. (No model To all whom it may concern:

Be it. known that l, ARTHUR REED, a citizen of theUnited States, residing at 77 Melrose street, Brooklyn, E. D., in the county of Kings, State of New York, have invented a new and useful Chandelier-Holding Attachment, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the raising and lowering ot' the center light of chandeliers, or raising and lowering of chandeliers lighted by electlicity, gas, or oil.

The object of my invention is to provide a durable holding attachment free from the inconvenience of cords, involute springs, or ratchets. Holding attachments have been made with wedges packed with leather orother unenduring material. I attain the object by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure3 shows a chandelier with the attachment holding center light. Fig. l is a front view of the holding attachmentas itappears with its cover removed and holding tube' B, with its weight. Fig. 2 is a front view of the holding attachment as it appears when the cover is removed and the light is being pushed up. Figs. 4, 5, and 6 are detail views.

D, Fig. 1, is a metal frame, threaded inside at K for attaching to chandeliers, asin Fig.3.

F F are set-screws provided with lock-nuts to hold screws to their adjustment.

(1, Fig. 4, is a metal frame having recesses in the sides to receive wheel A on its pins, as in Fig. 6. Frame 0 is slanted on the top, and fits intoframeD, asin Fig. 1. The slanted top is to form a space at S, Fig. 1, to allow of a curvilinear movement of the wheel and irame 0, allowing the tube B to slide upward withoutresistance, as shown in'Fig. 2. The space for allowing movement may be obtained by slanting top of frame I) or by slanting U and D a little.

A, Fig. 5, is a metal wheel. firmly attached to center of wheel to fit into frame 0. The rim of the wheel is grooved to correspond to the'form of tube B, which may be either round, square, or hexagonal. The object of this construction is to obtain sufficient friction on the pins to hold the tube B, with its light, when the set-screws F F are adjusted as in Fig. 1.

The parts'are inclosed on both sides offrame D- with a metal cover, Fig. 7, attached with screws.

1 am aware that devices for attachment to chandeliers for raising and lowering of light have been made before myinvention. Therefore I do not claim such invention, broadly; but

\Vhat I do claim, and desire Letters Patent for, is

1. The combination, in a holding attachment, of an outer frame, D, with two smaller frames, 0, having recesses in the sides to receive wheel A on its pins, adjusting-screws F, with lock-nuts, and a space at S between frames U and D to allow of a curvilinear movement, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the frames 0 and D, constructed substantial] y as set forth, with the grooved wheels having large pins fitting into frames 0, as and for the purpose specified.

ARTHUR REED.

Witnesses:

DAVID TEESE, KARL BAUER.

A large pin is 

